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Art Exhibit is Music to Metropolitan Museum’s Ears

Opening of Chinese art exhibit will feature orchestral work by composer Tan Dun

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Charles Passy

Updated March 31, 2017 4:10 p.m. ET

It might seem enough of an accomplishment for a museum to mount an exhibition of 160-plus objects of ancient Chinese art, including many pieces that haven’t been seen before in the U.S.

But at the Metropolitan Museum on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, an exhibition rarely stands alone. So in advance of “Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han dynasties (221 B.C.-A.D. 220),” which opens next week and runs through July 16 at the museum’s flagship Fifth Avenue location, the Met will host a concert on Friday night and Saturday...